Good luck with that, unless you’re John Chow or Darren Rowse. That horse, my friend, has bolted (I don’t even try, not from blogging anyway – see all those affiliate links on the right? I assume income from those will be miniscule). Well perhaps not entirely. But find a niche and work hard. It will take time. And effort. Then more time.

Now before you say “it’s wrong to make money from blogging!” (or money fullstop), read this. That’s a rubbish comment.

But before you get too dissuaded, consider:

“The master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction
between his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his
work and his play, his education and his recreation.

He hardly knows which.

He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he
is doing and leaves others to determine whether he is working
or playing.

To himself, he is always doing both.”

–Michael Scott Karpovich

Anyway, below is a long list of stuff that will be helpful. Make sure you have a passion, are clear about the passion (nothing wrong with polarising people, gets them off the fence!) and have an execution strategy.

And as for me, here’s my strategy for deriving an income online and unchaining myself from corporate suffocation.

tdftips.com and Cycling Through France guide: created first ebook – 76 pages, professionally produced – about cycling in France, following the Tour de France and L’Etape du Tour. So far have made more than half the cost of the ebook production back.

The tdftips.com site continually has content added to it, and my subsequent visits will allow me to create more region specific guides.

The revenue model is information product, and when eyeballs on page numbers increase, advertising.

wherespresso.com – this site exists solely to solve a problem most of us experience when we’re in an unfamiliar place and hunting for good coffee – “Where the HELL is good coffee?!”.

I’ve personally invested a few thousand in this so far, but the response is good, and it’s starting to stick.

The revenue model is software based as well as advertising.

cyclingmelbourne.com – this is a new one for me, and to be honest I am not sure how it’ll go yet. Like I said in this post, I tend to shoot first and ask questions later. This tends to allow me to execute, see if something works, then withdraw if it doesn’t.

Again, advertising will be the revenue model. To be perfectly honest though, I only really started it with a view to helping people get fit by starting to cycle.